Home About Us Press Room News & Events Contact Us Careers The Auction House Upcoming Auction Previous Auctions Recent Auctions     Auction Results Click on the thumbnails below to see large images with lot details. Art  |  Books  |  Cinema   Lots Per Page 10 20 30 40 50 60 <<Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next>>             Lot 133 (Set of 5) i Ravi Varma – The Indian Artist Allahabad: Indian Press, c. 1903 11.0 x 9.0 in (27.9 x 22.8 cm) Cover: Bound in Golden cloth15pp + v + 21 monochrome plates of paintings with tissue guards + 2 portraits Binding: Hardbound original Condition: A No author or year of publication but British Library catalogue says it was published in 1903 and authored by Ramananda Chatterjee, Editor of ‘Modern Review’ of Calcutta. The first book on an Indian artist and the only book on Varma published in his lifetime.             ii Raja Ravi Varma E. M. J. Venniyoor Trivandrum: Director, Museums and Zoos and Art Gallery, 1981 11.0 x 8.5 in (27.9 x 21.9 cm) Cover: Hardbound in green silk with fine dustjacket 82pp + 46 colour plates Binding: Hardback Condition: A+             iii Sakuntala: or, the Lost Ring by Kalidasa With abridged translation by Purshotam Vishram Mawjee Illustrated by M. V. Dhurandhar Bombay: The Lakshmi Art Pri nting Works, c. 1920 11.5 x 8.75 in (29.5 x ) Cover: Red cloth with title embossed on cover in Hindi and English 8pp + 17 monochrome tipped-in plates by Dhurandhar An unrelated Dhurandhar monochrome plate titled ‘Chandrapida returns to the capital’ tipped-in on free front endpaper Binding: Hardback but with cloth crinkled Condition: B             iv Deccan Nursery Tales or Fairy Tales from the South C. A. Kincaid London: Macmillan, 1914 8.5 x 6.5 in (21.9 x 16.7 cm) Cover: Illustrated blue cloth 135pp + 8 colour plates carrying paintings by M. V. Dhurandhar Binding Hardback Condition: B -             v Pictures of Indian Life and Characters An album of reproductions from photographs and drawings, depicting the people of India, their costumes, life, manners, habits, customs, etc. Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala , No date [c. 1920] 7.0 x 5.0 in (17.7 x 12.7 cm) Cover: Saffron paper 82pp with about 50 b&w reproductions of paintings and sketches by M. V. Dhurandhar, many of them signed, and the rest b&w photographs Binding: Paperback Condition: B   INR 40,000 – 50,000 USD 952 – 1,190         Lot 134 (Set of 2) i Nicholas Roerich Paintings Introduction by A. S. Raman New Delhi: 1947 13.0 x 10.2 in (33.0 x 26.0 cm) Cover: Plain white stiff card; lacks dustjacket Title page + Introduction + List of plates + 14 tipped-in plates [8 colour and 6 b&w] on as many sheets Binding: Stitched wrappers Condition: A One-inch strip from bottom of title page cut, which evidently had the publisher’s name. Portrait of Roerich tipped-in in introduction. Tipped-in plates are small, varying between 3.2 x 4.6 in (8.3 x 12.1 cm) and 4.0 x 5.7 in (10.2 x 14.9 cm)             ii Altai-Himalaya – A Travel Diary Nicholas Roerich London: Jarrolds / c. 1930 Printed in the USA 9.5 x 6.5 in (24.4 x 16.8 cm) Cover: Blue cloth, spine faded, title and a painting printed on front xix + 407 pp + 20 reproductions from paintings; map on front free endpaper Binding: Hardback Condition: Ex-library copy with remains of a library sticker before the title-page, library stamps on the title-page, on all edges and on some pages inside. Frontispiece is a b&w painting of the author by Sviatoslaw Roerich   INR 40,000 – 50,000 USD 952 – 1,190         Lot 135 (Set of 9) i Abanindranath Tagore Paintings – 24 Calcutta: A. N. Tagore Birth Centenary Committee / 1972 15.0 x 12.0 in (38.1 x 30.5 cm) Beige foldover cloth portfolio with hooks. Title printed in Bengali on cover.Publishers ticket on front pastedown, 4-page folder carrying a note on Tagore and the list of 24 plates loosely inserted. 24 colour plates of varying sizes tipped-in on as many stiff cards, loose as issued.Condition: A+             ii Abanindranath Thakur – Adiporber Shilpakarma Edited by Ramendranath Chakravorty Translated by Amita Roy Calcutta: Bharatiya Sangrahshala / c. 1960s 12.0 x 9.5 in (30.5 x 24.4 cm) Cover: Orange cloth with dustjacket 12 pp + 13 tipped-in plates in colour + sepia portrait of Tagore Binding: Hardback Condition: B-. Heavily moth-eaten. Text in Bengali, translated from English. Each tipped-in plate has related text on facing page             iii The Crescent Moon – Child-Poems Rabindranath Tagore Translated from the original Bengali by the author With 8 illustrations in colour New York: The Macmillan Compaby/1915 [reprint of 1913 ed.] 7.5 x 5.5 in (19.3 x 14.3 cm) Cover: Grey cloth with illustration and title embossed in gilt xii, 82 pp + 8 plates Binding: Hardback Condition: A Plates are after paintings by Nandalal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, Abanindranath Tagore and Surendranath Ganguli           The Auction House  |  Art Advisory Services  |  C.A.R.D  |  Osianama  |  Film House  |  Publishing & Design  |  Football Infrastructure Home  |  About  |  Contact  |  Press  |  Events  |  Careers  |  Site Map  |  Privacy Policy  |  Copyright © OSIAN's 2007